Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . far removed from themas regards material, with the solecr spartece of Vegetiusand Columella. The invention of these is probably coevalwith the introduction of their beautiful hardy little horses,as the people themselves wear shoes of a similar con-struction. Though made of rice-straw for ordinary wearon the horses of the humbler classes, and of silk or cottonstuff for those of grandees, yet their use is universal; andif the large number worn out in a days journey by onehorse be any criterion of what will be expended in a
Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . far removed from themas regards material, with the solecr spartece of Vegetiusand Columella. The invention of these is probably coevalwith the introduction of their beautiful hardy little horses,as the people themselves wear shoes of a similar con-struction. Though made of rice-straw for ordinary wearon the horses of the humbler classes, and of silk or cottonstuff for those of grandees, yet their use is universal; andif the large number worn out in a days journey by onehorse be any criterion of what will be expended in a busycommercial town, the manufacture of these slippers mustgive employment to very many people (fig. 4). Ridinghorses do not always wear them, and when they do they aregenerally fastened only on the fore feet, as on these theweight chiefly falls; but the pack-horses—which form,with bulls, the only means of conveying m erchandise byland, carriages not being in use—nearly always have sandals STRAIV HORSE-SHOES. 91 on. The arrangement of these is very simple. Rice-. straw is plaited into close ropes or bands, which are inter-woven to form a thick circular pad, intended to cover thewhole of the sole. Around the border of this cushionare loops of the same material; and at the front parta stronger loop, the main fastening, and through whichrun two narrow bands from the heels, the corrigice, madeto secure the whole apparatus firmly to the pastern. Kaempfer, the veracious historian of this curious em-pire, notices these contriv ances. Shoes for the servantsand for the horses. Those of the latter are made of straw,and are fastened with ropes of the same to the feet of thehorses, instead of iron shoes, such as ours in Europe,which are not used in this country. As the roads areslippery and full of stones, these shoes are soon worn out,so that it is often necessary to change them. For thispurpose, those who have the care of the horses alwayscarry with them a sufficient quantity, which
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